rved their patriarchal virtues:
they are upright and honest, but at the same time very proud, and
impatient of every kind of authority.... They are ignorant, and read no
books or papers--only the Old Testament; but Kruger knew he could rouse
these people by waving before them the spectre of England, and crying in
their ears the word 'Independence.' And this is what disgusts us, that
under cover of principles so dear to us all, independence and national
honour, these brave men are sent to the battlefield to preserve for a
tyrannical and venal oligarchy the right to share amongst themselves,
and distribute as they please, the gold which is levied on the work of
foreigners."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 30: Parliamentary Blue Book, 4194, 42.]

[Footnote 31: Austral Africa, Chap. 4, pages 235-250.]

[Footnote 32: Austral Africa, p. 233 and on.]

[Footnote 33: Natives under the Transvaal Flag. Revd. John H. Bovill.]

[Footnote 34: It is stated on the authority of _The Sentinel_ (London,
June, 1900), that Mr. Kruger was asked some years ago to permit the
introduction in the Johannesburg mining district of the State regulation
of vice, and that Mr. Kruger stoutly refused to entertain such an idea.
Very much to his credit! Yet it seems to me that the refusal to legalize
native marriages comes rather near, in immorality of principle and
tendency, to the legalizing of promiscuous intercourse.]

[Footnote 35: Natives under the Transvaal Flag, by Rev. J. Bovill.]

[Footnote 36: La question du Transvaal, by Professor Ed. Naville, of
Geneva.]

VIII.

THE THEOLOGY OF THE BOERS. EXPLOITATION OF NATIVES BY CAPITALISTS.
BRITISH COLONIZING.--ITS CAUSES AND NATURE. CHARACTER OF PAUL
KRUGER AS A RULER. THE MORAL TEACHINGS OF THE WAR. OUR
RESPONSIBILITIES. HASTY JUDGMENTS. DENUNCIATIONS OF ENGLAND BY
ENGLISHMEN. THE OPEN BOOK. MY LAST WORD IS FOR THE NATIVE RACES.

Even in these enlightened days there seems to be in some minds a strange
confusion as to the understanding of the principle of Equality for which
we plead, and which is one of the first principles laid down in the
Charter of our Liberties. What is meant in that charter is _Equality of
all before the Law_; not by any means social equality, which belongs to
another region of political ideas altogether.

A friend who has lived in South Africa, and who has had natives working
for and with him, tells me of this confusion of ideas among some of t